Remember When...

Looks like my area (probably another year away - LOL) is going to get some real Internet and it caused me to have one of those moments that makes me realize how old I am.

I remember when Premium was the TOP of line package in just about everything now it still is the top of the list but it is really just the Basic package.



Another neighbor (a little younger than me) thought the Lightning Internet Plan just quicker about emptying your bank account.

Hope you guys don't mind me sharing.

BobVal

It is certainly a misprint; they wrote the wrong currency symbol, which is actually this:
https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/b4x-format-10-000-ten-thousand-to-lakh.132212/post-834442

And I thought Internet was already expensive in Germany.

Alexander Stolte said:

And I thought Internet was already expensive in Germany.

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Come to my back yard - govt is trying to force prices down - they just ignore it . . . .I thought here is almost The Most expensive (for cellphones too). The ZAR Business Model . . . .roars on and on.

I think it probably should be like gas. Pay per MB or GB if you want to go fast than you pay more. Like if you drive fast you use more gas.

But I also feel there shouldn't be any fee for monthly cable. You should just pay some small fee for every show you watch. For years Directv has included music channels as part of my plan. Why do I need to pay for them, I've never once in 30 years went to listen. But they are part of my plan.

Oh well, just the oldest in me coming out

Robert Valentino said:

Oh well, just the oldest in me coming out

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Robert Valentino said:

But they are part of my plan.

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Wanna see some of the RUBBISH I have to pay for in my cable plan? The claim is that if we could just choose channels by preference it would be expensive ->so WHAT WOULD CHANGE and make today difference from yesterday? At least I occassionaly just set the TV to a music channel suitable for my age group (60/70s - music that is) and sail on into the B4X ocean...........

Lol. I remember end of 70s beginning of 80s when so many were against the boob tube

Bob did they change that. Now we watch on everything.

Robert Valentino said:

Looks like my area (probably another year away - LOL) is going to get some real Internet and it caused me to have one of those moments that makes me realize how old I am.

I remember when Premium was the TOP of line package in just about everything now it still is the top of the list but it is really just the Basic package.

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Another neighbor (a little younger than me) thought the Lightning Internet Plan just quicker about emptying your bank account.

Hope you guys don't mind me sharing.

BobVal

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this must be very new image. i have today only 60 Mbps

i am only 40 but i remember this on my screen when trying to connect to yahoo!

I also come from stone age (of internet) when dialing on phone line we get to hear the ear soothing sound like kerrr..kerrr..too.oo.toooo..kaaarr..kaaarr..
Ah, we did not hear there is trouble.

Also downloading a 5k file would take ages. And yes, looking at the circular wait progress bar was normal for watching any animation.

Today's kids will not understand the fun we had then.

agraham said:

Dial Up Modem Sounds | Effects | Sound Bites | Sound Clips from SoundBible.com

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Thanks for the link. Has old people sounds too.

AnandGupta said:

dialing on phone line we get to hear the ear

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I remember when one could not dial a number. You just picked up the phone and turned the handle on the box. That "rang" in the exchange building where workers (*ladies normally) unplugged a jack-plug from their "console" - plugged it into your line socket. You asked for a number and then another jack plug "fly-lead / patch-cord" was moved to link ( "patch") you into whom you wanted to speak to. No ringing dinging or buzzing (well maybe that latter - which was because the intermediary worker was still listening into the conversation - roll over and die phone-tappers and NSA workers!!!).

The big kicker was this - once you had finished your call your data was then delivered to the wider community by the phone-exchange worker - in those days we called it gossip - today we call it FaceBook. [[data capture and dissemination in one swoop - fix that one quantum computing gurus]]

Ah . . . the wonders of what we then called a "Party Line" - nothing to do with Politics and "the Party Line".

[[PS these operators knew everyone for miles around - so when you asked for the number (either a number or simply a name) you would be told "No Betty is out, gone to Jane's house do you want me to phone Jane and say its for Betty?") - - - GRIEF Makes me laugh just thinking about it - - - ]]

AnandGupta said:

sound like kerrr..kerrr..too.oo.toooo..kaaarr..kaaarr

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In a couple of decades, people will remember when car engines ran on gasoline and made a lot more noise than "current" electric ones.